http://japantechniche.com/2009/11/05/development-of-robotic-arm-for-people-with-upper-limb-disabilities-by-aist/ Japan Technology Information will bring you the most recent technological information from Japan Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:56:24 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://japantechniche.com/2009/11/05/development-of-robotic-arm-for-people-with-upper-limb-disabilities-by-aist/comment-page-1/#comment-1816 Development of Software Platform for Efficient Development of Robotic Systems by AIST | Japan Technology Information Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:17:20 +0000 http://japantechniche.com/?p=3659#comment-1816 [...] Robotic research and development has been labeled as being highly inefficient, all due to the isolated nature of development, where each organization has developed all its related software from scratch. To make the matter worst, lack of compatibility and standard interfaces among systems prevents compatibility between developed resources without an explicit design, requiring a lot work for previously developed software reuse, which has resulted in an increased in overall cost of robotic system development, making it a major factor in dampening robots commercial viability. To address this issue major research program in many industrialized countries around the world are focusing on software platforms for robotic development. One such effort has been taken by AIST (Advance Industrial Science and Technology), by developing OpenRTM-aist. OpenRTM-aist is a software platform that allows efficient development of robotic system through modularization of functional elements of robots, such as sensors, motors, robot arms as well as entire mobile robots on a software level, with as aim to improve reliability and reusability of the software. The interface specification of an RT component which is the modular atomic unit of software in the middleware is based on the Robotic Technology Component (RTC) specification ver.1.0, which has been adopted by OMG (Object Management Group) as an official standard specification, making the OpenRTM-aist the world’s first implementation based on the OMG RTC specification. The key points in OpenRTM-aist are, providing interoperability among operating systems, programming languages and vendors based on compliance with international standards, providing dual licensing, an open source license and individual licenses. This research has been under METI and NEDO 5-year “Intelligent Robot Technology Software” project which has started in 2007. Share and Enjoy: [...] [...] Robotic research and development has been labeled as being highly inefficient, all due to the isolated nature of development, where each organization has developed all its related software from scratch. To make the matter worst, lack of compatibility and standard interfaces among systems prevents compatibility between developed resources without an explicit design, requiring a lot work for previously developed software reuse, which has resulted in an increased in overall cost of robotic system development, making it a major factor in dampening robots commercial viability. To address this issue major research program in many industrialized countries around the world are focusing on software platforms for robotic development. One such effort has been taken by AIST (Advance Industrial Science and Technology), by developing OpenRTM-aist. OpenRTM-aist is a software platform that allows efficient development of robotic system through modularization of functional elements of robots, such as sensors, motors, robot arms as well as entire mobile robots on a software level, with as aim to improve reliability and reusability of the software. The interface specification of an RT component which is the modular atomic unit of software in the middleware is based on the Robotic Technology Component (RTC) specification ver.1.0, which has been adopted by OMG (Object Management Group) as an official standard specification, making the OpenRTM-aist the world’s first implementation based on the OMG RTC specification. The key points in OpenRTM-aist are, providing interoperability among operating systems, programming languages and vendors based on compliance with international standards, providing dual licensing, an open source license and individual licenses. This research has been under METI and NEDO 5-year “Intelligent Robot Technology Software” project which has started in 2007. Share and Enjoy: [...]

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